Hello everyone and thanks for your help in advance. I am working on an application that allows a user to downlad a zip file from an FTP site. I have used the following code:

Dim URL As String = "f= "ftp://ftpsite/data.zip"

Dim outputFile As String = "C:\Data.zip"
Dim wReq As WebRequest
Dim wResp As WebResponse
Dim respStream As Stream
Dim reader As StreamReader
Dim writer As StreamWriter

' create the Web Request
wReq = WebRequest.Create(URL)

' get the response
wResp = wReq.GetResponse()
respStream = wResp.GetResponseStream()
reader = New StreamReader(respStream, Encoding.ASCII)

' and write it to the required file
writer = New StreamWriter(outputFile)
writer.Write(reader.ReadToEnd())

However, the application fails to work. I have verified that the FTP site is configured properly and works, so the problem is in my code. I am not exactly sure what is wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Hi Hugh,

I am not 100% sure, but shouldn't you send authentication credentials to the FTP server? AFAIK, even in an open FTP server, you would still need to send "Anonymous" or whatever as the user name. Maybe that's causing the problem.....

HtH

Imar


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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

Hi Imar,

Actually, I am not sure where I would send it except in the URL. Does the WebRequest and WebResponse support FTP?